Sentences with phrase «left the policy rate»

Even though the U.S. unemployment rate is at its lowest level since early 2008, America's central bank opted to leave its policy rate unchanged last week.

Local inflation remains high, forcing the Brazilian central bank to leave its policy rate unchanged since July 2015.

The ECB has left its policy rate unchanged since June 2003 at 2 per cent.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 2 - U.S. stocks edged higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve released its policy announcement, leaving interest rates unchanged.

NEW YORK, May 2 - U.S. stocks briefly rose but returned to negative territory on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged in its policy announcement.

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. stocks briefly rose but returned to negative territory on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged in its policy announcement.

The Governing Council left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at its ultra-low setting of 0.5 %, but policy makers were less than enthusiastic about the Canada's prospects.

And since policy rates aren't likely to budge for at least another year, Flaherty is left to glower at banks from up on high while mortgage rates continue to drop.

When asked why, the majority cited a continued high unemployment rate as the main reason and government policies as another reason they don't buy economists» views that we left the recession several quarters ago.

The Bank of Canada wasn't so disenchanted that it felt a policy change was needed: policy makers left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at the ultra-low setting of 0.5 %.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its monetary policy on hold, leaving the short - term interest rate target at minus 0.1 percent.

The Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy on hold, leaving short - term interest rate target at minus 0.1 percent.

Nevertheless, when making interest rate policy in early March, BoC governor Mark Carney overlooked rising pressures on inflation and left the central bank's target for Canada's overnight rate at 1 %.

As the Fed policy meeting threw up no surprises with rates left unchanged, the focus shifted back to simmering trade tensions...

The Fed ended its latest policy meeting by leaving its key short - term rate unchanged at 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, the level it set in March after its sixth rate increase...

The increase in the benchmark rate, when it comes, likely will be followed by one or more decisions to leave policy unchanged.

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. stocks edged higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve released its policy announcement, leaving interest rates unchanged.

Australia's central bank left its cash rate at 1.5 percent, a widely expected decision given policy makers have signaled a steady outlook.

The Bank of Korea left its key interest rate unchanged on Tuesday, as expected, taking note of muted inflationary pressure and showing caution ahead of any further monetary tightening from the U.S Federal Reserve's policy meeting on March 20 - 21.

This data shouldn't change the Fed's interest - rate strategy, as a rising labor force participation rate will put a lid on inflation regardless of how it's done, but it should lower our confidence that the Fed can solve the problem of a bifurcated workforce, in which a large chunk of workers are getting left behind, simply through interest rate policy.

A week after the U.S. Federal Reserve opted to leave the country's interest rates unchanged for the time being, Fed chair Janet Yellen is set to testify before Congress on U.S. monetary policy.

The RBA has left rates at 1.50 percent since August 2016, the longest spell of stable policy since the early 1990s.

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged in today's monetary policy announcement, but firmer inflation in recent months lays the foundation for hikes in the months ahead.

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For now, Mr. Carney said he is content with his current policy stance, which is encompassed by the extraordinary pledge he made in April to leave the benchmark interest rate near zero until at least June, 2010, conditional on the inflation outlook.

I also noticed that politics were starting to move left, deficits were getting larger, and the Fed had committed a policy error post-tech bubble in leaving rates at 1 % for so long.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

A two - day Federal Reserve policy meeting ended Wednesday with no change in rates, as expected, while the U.S. central bank said inflation had «moved close» to its target, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June.

Indeed, even as the Federal Reserve (Fed) began the process of rate normalization late last year, it left interest rates unchanged at its policy meeting this month.

Global monetary policy remains broadly accommodative — and in some areas more and more so — propelling equity markets ever higher and leaving a record amount of sovereign debt around the world (almost US$ 12 trillion by midyear) yielding at or below zero (source: Fitch Ratings, as of 6/29/2016).

The Fed kept interest rates unchanged following its policy meeting on Wednesday, a move that was widely expected, and noted that inflation was starting to inch higher, leaving it on track to raise borrowing costs in June.

Against this backdrop, Governing Council decided to leave our key policy interest rate unchanged, as we judged that the balance of risks at present are still within the zone for which the current policy setting remains appropriate.

Important: this is a delayed but not derailed story: after the April 15th statement and Monetary Policy Report come out, implied odds of the overnight rate being at 0.75 % are ~ 30 % (when I left the Bloomie)-- 20 % odds of it being at 0.25 %.

Norges Bank confirms it's ready to hike ratesNorway's central bank left its key policy rate unchanged Thursday, but confirmed its intention to start raising interest rates later in the year, despite surprisingly muted inflation in the Nordic country.

The ECB's monetary policy in September was a non-event, with the governing council neither making any changes to the existing policy nor adding new ones as they voted to leave interest rates and non-monetary policies on hold.

While the United States has been embroiled in pre-presidential election drama and speculation about what might trigger the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and multiple central banks worldwide turned to a negative interest - rate policy in an attempt to stimulate growth.

U.S. monetary policy was left unchanged this week, as the Federal Reserve concluded its final rate meeting under the guidance of Janet Yellen.

But even if the ECB does bend to the will of the bond markets this year, and begins to buy sovereign debt directly, the single currency is left with all of the same weaknesses that existed prior to the crisis: the inability to tailor interest rate policy for each individual economy, the lack of foreign currency adjustment needed to offset differences in competitiveness, and growth - limiting trade dynamics throughout the area.

The uneventful April FOMC expectedly left the door open for a possible rate hike in June without committing the Federal Reserve for policy action, and policymakers also signaled easing concerns over foreign risk factors.

The economic report comes a day after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, as expected, at the conclusion of its policy - setting meeting.

Fortunately, right now the real policy rate is pretty much equal to the natural real rate, leaving the system in balance.

As today was central bank day in Europe, both the ECB and the BOE had rate decision meetings and left their current policies in place.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

The US Federal Reserve System decided to leave its benchmark interest rate untouched following its two - day policy meeting on July 25 - 26, in line with market expectations.

As expected, the Fed raised interest rates at its December meeting, but for the first time in more than a year, two members of the rate - setting committee dissented, in favor of leaving monetary policy on hold.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is expected to leave the Overnight Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 1.75 percent at its monetary policy meeting, scheduled to be held next Thursday.This is the first Monetary Polpolicy meeting, scheduled to be held next Thursday.This is the first Monetary PolicyPolicy...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has not changed monetary policy for nearly two years, leaving its refinancing rate at 2 per cent (Graph 15).

The Fed leaves its benchmark interest rate steady, but it signaled that an increase was likely at its next policy meeting in March.

That may explain why the Fed sought to leave the door open for a rate hike rather than paint the economy as fully ready for a monetary policy tightening.

For example, if the Bank gets new information that leads it to expect inflation will fall below target unless it cuts the overnight rate of interest, and at the same time gets new information about fiscal policy, the Bank might decide to leave the rate of interest where it is.